At least 13 people were wounded in Russian attacks on Ukraine today, local officials said, as Kyiv marked 32 years of independence from Moscow.

A Russian missile strike wounded 10 people in the central city of Dnipro and three people, including a child, were hurt in an attack on the southern city of Kherson.

Three of the victims in Dnipro were in hospital with moderate wounds, regional governor Serhiy Lysak reported, and a transport facility was damaged.

More than 10 other buildings including a bank, a hotel and an administrative building were damaged, he said.

It is “no accident” that focus swiftly turned to the Kremlin following the crash, Germany's foreign minister said today.

“We know this pattern in Putin’s Russia: deaths, dubious suicides, falls from windows, all which remain unclarified — that underlines a dictatorial power system that is built on violence,” Annalena Baerbock told a news conference.

She added that it was “no accident that the world immediately looks at the Kremlin when a disgraced former confidant of Putin suddenly, literally falls from the sky two months after he attempted a mutiny.”

China has “noted relevant reports” about the plane crash and the presumed death of Prigozhin, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said today in a daily briefing.

Wang did not provide further explanation on the issue.

Following the mercenary rebellion in June, Beijing said that China believed it was a domestic issue, saying that it supported Russia to “maintain national stability” and “achieve development and prosperity.”

China has been reluctant to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but has also reiterated its support and respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty.

France said today it has “reasonable doubts” about the cause of the plane crash that is presumed to have killed Prigozhin.

“We don’t yet know the circumstances of this crash,” government spokesman Olivier Veran told France 2 television, according to Reuters, but “we can have some reasonable doubts.”

Asked about President Joe Biden’s remark that little “happens in Russia that Putin is not behind,” Veran said he agreed that “as a general rule, that’s a truth that can be established.”

The plane crash linked to Prigozhin was a “demonstrative elimination” of the once-insider who dared to challenge the Kremlin, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said today.

Speaking with Russia’s independent TV Rain channel, he said the incident was meant to serve as “intimidation” for a part of the Russian elite that’s “somewhat not loyal to Putin.”

Tumultuous times are coming for those in the Russian president’s inner circle, Podolyak speculated, because "Putin has demonstrated that he will question the loyalty of any member of his entourage, even those closest to him.”

Ukrainian officials have largely refrained from commenting on the incident, with Prigozhin's fate still officially unknown. NBC News has not confirmed whether the mercenary chief died in the crash.

A member of the Wagner mercenary group pays tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin at a makeshift memorial in front of a Wagner office in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk today.

An Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet belonging to Prigozhin was known to have the serial number RA-02795.

That aircraft was last tracked at 11:20 a.m. ET yesterday, according to flightradar24, a flight tracker.

The aircraft showed no sign of any problem until a sudden drop, according to the data. The last few minutes were recorded as the plane underwent a series of ascents and descents of thousands of feet over 30 seconds, before its final plunge.

Flags and floral tributes were left outside the former PMC Wagner Center in St. Petersburg in the early hours of this morning, after Russian authorities said that the group's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was listed as a passenger on the jet that crashed yesterday.